The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 18 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.11 billion NSC Puppet 18ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 18ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,198 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 196,081 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy", and the government loves seeing the little people fight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 18's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 18 is ranked 12,438^th in the world and 395^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.24 law-abiding acts per hour.